Example sentences of "[adj] [be] so [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The reason for this is so that the recipient can see at a glance what the letter is about .
2 This is so that the energy can be made to travel a much greater distance .
3 This is so that the crowd can give him a fair judgement .
4 The kinematics of materials , considered as assemblages of particles may be described by either of the two methods and this is so whether the material is elastic , viscous or a classical fluid .
5 This is so since the relation of dependence between the variables given in the law is wholly symmetrical : a later state of a system fixes an earlier state as much as an earlier fixes a later .
6 We know that this is so because the X-ray diffraction pattern , which shows the crystal lattice spacing , does not change when cellulose swells in water .
7 This is so because the world around us — including the social world — channels our actions , constraining us to act in particular ways .
8 That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege .
9 In Rice v. Connolly , the landmark decision establishing that this is the law , it was said that this was so because a refusal to answer questions was not ‘ wilful , ’ an expression that their Lordships interpreted to mean ‘ without lawful excuse . ’
10 It could be argued that this was so because the individualist Hobbesian anarchism which formed the theoretical model of the bourgeois economy provided no basis for any form of social organisation , including that of the family .
11 Where that was so and the workforce was invited , or itself proposed , to set up an industrial co-operative , but understood the preservation of every job to be the prime objective , the necessary conditions for effective management were absent from the start .
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